Prominent Canterbury High Country farmer Colin Drummond has died

By RNZ

Prominent Canterbury farming leader Colin Drummond, from Erewhon Station, has died.

Drummond, from the Canterbury High Country, passed away on December 11 after what his family described as a brief but brutal illness.

Drummond, who ran a Clydesdale horse stud on the station, was the Mid-Canterbury representative for the Federated Farmers High Country Industry Group.

On the farm’s Facebook page, his wife Erin Cassie said his death was a massive shock.

Canterbury farming leader Colin Drummond has died.

“Not sure how we proceed without this one-in-a-million mountain of a man beside me. But I know how lucky I have been to ‘do’ life with a soulmate who completed me.

“Its been a wild ride, but I take comfort that his ‘better to burn out than rust out’ mantra ensured his life was certainly no dress rehearsal.”

She said Colin’s life would be celebrated on Tuesday, December 17 at his home.

It comes after the death of Chris Allen, who died after a workplace accident on his Ashburton farm last week.

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